Kuroko no Basket
24

24th Quarter : It even died for that sake.

Totally awesome chapter. The action pages are so masterfully drawn, it's hard to tell that Fujimaki is actually a beginner. Other than that... This translation actually should have been released earlier, seeing how there wasn't too much text in the chapter, but then there was Izuki. Damn you, Izuki >.>;

Either way, enjoy~

Kuroko chapter 24

Page 01

Board : Seirin – Seihou

Tsugawa : haha!Tsugawa : Kagami's revenge...!?

Left : Not much time left... For the sake of his senpais, for the sake of settling everything, Kuroko is on the move!!

Tsugawa : I was surprised it was you and not Kagami coming back, butTsugawa : In the end you're still a freshman.Tsugawa : I guess Seirin's senpais aren't reliable after all!Kuroko : ?

Tsugawa : You know, since they said they put you two on the bench because of their pride as senpais earlier.Tsugawa : … but aren't you on the court right now?

Kuroko : I was the one who asked to play.Kuroko : And looking back on how the match went until now, you should not be thinking that.

Page 03

Kuroko : Just in the same way a senpai has pride,Kuroko : A kouhai has respect.(T/N : Kouhai is, as you probably guessed, the opposite of Senpai. Underclassman could have kinda fit, but broken the flow of the sentence, so I left in untranslated)

Kuroko : In order to support the senpais I respect as wellKuroko : I will defeat you.

Tsugawa : Fmm...

Page 04

Tsugawa : Haaa...!?Tsugawa : I lost him... Why!? When...!!?

Page 05

Nothing.

Page 06

Someone : Wooh, here it comes again!!Someone : Seirin's magic pass!!!

Iwamura : … How do they do that!? It's true that those passes are a threat, but... Even the players getting them are able to dodge the defense!?

Page 07

Iwamura : What!?Iwamura : He stopped the pass...!!?Iwamura : It can't be that these guys...

Page 08

Kagami : Now that I think about it, it's the first time I see Kuroko from the bench...Kagami : Awesome...

Matsumoto : They've done it...Matsumoto : It's the first time a team has studied us to that extent.

Page 09

Hyuuga : Our DVD player even died for that sake...

Kasuga : You got us there, huh.

Kasamatsu : Old martial arts, like the name says, are ancient techniques.Kasamatsu : They're a completely different way of thinking from our era of sports science.Kasamatsu : Seihou's strength is all about using them to move in an unique way... but...

Riko : If it's uniqueRiko : then there are patterns!

Page 10

Hyuuga : In order to predict your next moves from those patterns,Hyuuga : We've watched all of your matches so far until the DVDs were all worn out.

Hyuuga : Well, I may say that, but we could actually use it only since the beginning of the second half...

Izuki : In practice, these aren't obvious enough to be called patterns, anyway.Izuki : We're no patrons of patterns...(Xophien : Kuse ni kusen (Hard battle for patterns) -damn you Izuki-)